IDEAS OF GRACE Moments of desolation when life and love collide drowning us beneath the weight of their inevitability You pause and look back at me as if I were cancer How can this be? Why is this happening? Who do you think you are? Isn't history the antidote for bad judgment? Fidelity is so fluid these days So much expected in return I tell you about my parents My long suffering mother My long silent father Married 58 years until death "Those were days of denial, when relationship was abduction and silence a woman's ransom." I don't argue.....I hide my point of view How could you understand there is glory in surrender if made for harmony Or that the liberation of the blind is conceived in a bed of forgiveness RIGHT WORDS Amazing how her words clear me. How her insight can dispel shadows. Magic spells simple and economic. Aspirin for my confusion. FICTIONS You will love me forever, until you became bored with predictability and leave me for a man who plays board games and grows the best pot you ever smoked After being beaten my belief in mother love falters only eleven years old and exhausted by her love I simply forgive Even animals must flee when frightened Falling out of mind into life they are orphans Mysteries of mind leaving me silent ............................as I await further direction Main Page This site sponsered by